Water outage south of Hays will begin at 8 a.m. Posted on February 17, 2014February 17, 2014 ELLIS — Customers in the southern and eastern parts of the Ellis Rural Water District 1C will be without water for part of the day on Monday. Crews will be replacing equipment starting at 8 a.m., and the outage is expected to last until about 2 p.m.